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Election 2014

Since everyone else is weighing in on the upcoming election in the United States in November, I thought I might as well too, using the lens of astrology. There appear to be two contradictory messages from the election day chart; I think it should be a very interesting election.

Pluto-Uranus on US Sun

The major thing that colors this whole period is shown in the first chart, a graphical ephemeris for 2012 the 2017. It shows the transiting Pluto going back and forth over the natal Sun (yellow dashed horizontal line near the top) of the United States. The last time this happened was before the US birth, that is before the Declaration of Independence. This was a time about 1766 to 1771 when the British were trying to get money from the colonists through such measures as th Townsend Act (1767) and the Stamp Act (1765) that led to such things as the Boston Massacre (March 1770) and ultimately to the American Revolution, as shown in the second chart.

Before the Revolutionary War – Pluto opposite Sun of US

While I am not suggesting that there will be another American revolution, I am saying there wlll be a lot of animosity towards those institutions represented by the Sun. When the country was a colony of England, the Sun represented the King of England and the British government. Now that the US has “self-rule” the Sun represents the President and the government. And right now, those institutions are not very popular with the people, as many polls show. I saw recently that the imaginary character Darth Vader is more popular than any potential or real President, as well as the Congress.

The election chart is set for election day, but I chose the time of 12:29 since at that time the transiting Moon is exactly conjunct transiting Uranus (black arrow), suggesting a time of upset or of “revolution”.

In this chart not only is Pluto opposite the US Sun (green arrow), but Pluto is conjunct transiting Mars (red arrow), which is opposite the US Jupiter. Pluto Mars conjunctions are connected with, to put it mildly, extreme anger. This conjunction will be building up in the week following the election.

Of course, there is the transiting Uranus square transiting Pluto which has been going on for several years now; this aspect has marked this as a decade of upset, unrest, and violence, and you can see it in the daily headlines from Iraq to Israel to Ukraine and of course in the US to a lesser extent.

And since Pluto is opposite the Sun then we have Uranus square the Sun (blue arrow), putting even more pressure on the central government. But notice the both Uranus and Pluto are semisquare the Moon (yellow, aqua arrows) of the United States, and also, self evidently, the Moon is at the Midpoint of Uranus/Pluto. We have a whole lot of Uranus Pluto happening. This suggests sudden revolt. People are angry at what has been done to them by forces beyond their control, and here is a chance for them to express that anger. In the United States people don’t so much vote for a candidate as vote against a candidate by voting for the other candidate, and in the two-party system of the United States, this leaves few choices.

To further suggest the rebellious nature of the election, the Moon-Uranus conjunction is trine the Ascendant and opposite the natal Saturn. Saturn and Uranus have two opposing principles: Saturn represents conformity and the safe path, while Uranus represents rebellion and the more risky path. Thus the opposition is conflict between the old and the new. When these two planets/principles are opposed in the sky, we get conflict between rebellion and safety. Two examples: this opposition happened in 1919 when the Palmer raids (fighting Quaker Attorney General Mitchell Palmer) started. This period in the United States is often called the First Red Scare; just after World War I there was a series of bombing supposedly by foreign anarchists, there were a lot of deportation, such as Emma Goldman, the Sacco-Vanzetti event and trial occurred, and Eugene Debs, who was jailed under the Espionage Act (yes, the same one being used today to jail whistle-blowers) ran for President from his cell. Another example was the “Credibility gap” of 1966 where many voters got upset with the current President Lyndon Johnson and the true depth of the Vietnam war was realized. Based on these ideas, I’m guessing that this opposition, even though one planet is natal, will be similar. We already have a new “Red Scare”; even though the Communist party does not rule in Russia these days we have their leader – Vladimir Putin – which we can demonize as much, and possibly more, that any of the former leaders of the Soviet Union.

But then there is another theme shown in this chart. There is a transiting Sun-Venus (white arrow) conjunction, which is not bad at all, trine the natal Sun, and the transiting Mercury square (brown arrow) the natal Mercury and sesquiquadrate (crimson arrow) the natal Uranus. In the entry about the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, we said that the Mercury semisquare Uranus is part of a very pervasive belief that the US is a innovative, revolutionary country, and we showed how Neptune, at the same place Mercury is in this chart, accentuated that belief. The presence of Mercury for the elections in the same place as Neptune for the Supreme Court decision suggests that that this elections will also be about reaffirming the essential progressive nature of the US.

Thus there are two, very different themes expressed in this chart for the US election on November 4, 2014. One suggests rebellion and the other suggests that American is an exceptional country. Again, I think that the election will be interesting. One way of combining the two themes that I thought of is that America will be rebellious in this election, there will be some upsets, but finally people will conclude that this behavior shows that America is still a rebellious country, and this election shows the best in America, though the initial take will not be that generous.

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Wars of America — Part II

In part I we looked at the three wars that divide American history into convenient and appropriate sections: The Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II, and found that these three wars came at intervals of about 84 years, one Uranus cycle. In each case, at some point Uranus was opposite the Ascendant, and thus conjunct the Descendant, of the United States chart. Also during the war, Neptune was either conjunct or opposite the Midheaven of the United States. This may or may not be because Neptune has almost exactly double the period of Uranus and so when Uranus moves around the zodiac once Neptune moves half-way around the zodiac.

King William’s War

The next thing to do is look at the periods 84 and 168 years before the Revolutionary War, when Uranus was also conjunct the Descendant of the United States. The first time was 1693, when the United States was still a colony of England. At this time there was an ongoing conflict between England and France, who at the time controlled Canada. Part of this conflict took place in North America, and the American colonists were involved on, of course, the side of Britain. What was taking place at the time was the first of three wars which are referred to in high school history books as the French and Indian Wars. This first one was called, in America, King William’s War, for the current king of England, who was imported from the Netherlands, along with his wife, because the British did not want a Catholic king, who had been King James II, who was replaced in the Glorious Revolution. This war, as all the French and Indian wars, was essentially between the French and the English. The war started in 1689 and ended by treaty in 1697, only to be followed in another five years by another war.

King William’s War

In the first chart for July 9, 1693 Uranus has just come to the Descendant of the United States. It also makes a sesquiqadrate to Pluto, again accentuating the Pluto semisquare Ascendant in the natal chart, which is involved in US wars. The second chart for this particular war is for June 2, 1697 where Neptune comes to the IC of the United States. Again we see the pattern that we saw in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II repeated. But this war is smaller even than the Revolutionary War.

Starving Time

After the Starving Time

Let’s look 84 years further back. There was only one colony on what would become the United States, at Jamestown. An earlier colony in the Carolinas had disappeared. This colony at Jamestown had been founded on May 14, 1607 but for food they either traded with the Indians or relied on shipments from England. The Winter of 1609-10 was extremely hard, and almost 90% of the colonists died. Domestic animals were killed for food, and some cannibalism took place, as a recent New York Times story tells a about an current archaeological discovery. A fleet from England did finally come, but it had only more colonists and not food. In the summer of 1610 (July 7) as they sailed away another ship with supplies came and they returned to the colony, which then was firmly established. This was the first crisis of America. If we look at chart for November 24, 1609, that winter of the Starving Time, as it has come to be called, we see that Uranus is on the Descendant of the United States, as it was in the previous four charts. However, looking at the next chart for November 24, 1614, when Neptune first came to the Midheaven, we see that it is a full five year after the crisis, and so this does not seem to fit the pattern. Of course, in this example the crisis only lasted a few months, not nearly as long as the others did.

Eleven Years in the Future

A Future War?

What we have seen is five crises, starting at the birth of the colony at Jamestown and occurring every 84 years with increasing death, violence, and geographical spread happening to the United States. The obvious question is when will this patten happen next. As it tuns out, the next time Uranus comes to the Descendant of the United States is in less than 15 years, as we can see by this last chart, for July 17, 2028. One would expect another war, even bigger than World War II. Several possibilities: Aliens from outer space will invade and the nations of the world will band together to fight them. A bit fanciful, then perhaps it will be an asteroid that will be expected to hit the earth and the nations of the world will band together to fight it. Or perhaps it will be a world wide fight between th 1% and the 99% since inequality has become so much worse than it is now. Or perhaps the final collapse of the ecosystems of the world. But since I’m an optimist (Jupiter conjunct Sun) my best guess is that the nations of the world will finally decide that the global crises are so ominous that they need to band together in a World War II-scale attempt to fight for the survival of the planet. Of course it should have been done in the 1980s. There is much more that needs to be said about this period, one of the most important of at least the 21st Century, but we need to have more background. If this is the type of crises we will face in another dozen years, it suggests that many things will happen between now and then to make the countries of the world think that that type of world wide response is finally necessary. We will look for signs of that in future entries.

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The Grand Cross

A grand cross in astrology consists of four planets each square to two other planets and opposed to the third, thus forming a square. The one coming up at the end of April illustrates a grand cross well. It has been said of a grand cross that someone gets crucified on it. Notice at first glance that all four planets – Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto – are at 13 degrees of cardinal signs, so the orb for all aspects is less than one degree – it is a tight cardinal grand cross. If you look at the fourth harmonic chart you can see how close all four planets are.

Also included is the graphical ephemeris of this period which show exactly and in a very visual manner how the four planets come together. Notice that they all cross exactly where the U.S. Sun is at 13 Cancer.

Consider the four planets involved in the grand cross: Mars, the planet of War, Jupiter, the planet of Capitalism, Uranus, the planet of Revolution, and Pluto, the planet of Transformation. They are all in conflict and cross-purposes. These planets all highlight issues that are very important at this time of our history. This grand cross of late April could represent a peak of the crisis represented by those four planets.

The long lasting Uranus-Pluto square, of which I’ll write more later, is an additional stress to our system. You can see small outbursts all the time.

This is an impressive formation involving four planets, including two slow moving ones whose square has highlighted this decade. The question becomes what does it mean. I have seldom seen such an impressive formation. The only other one I have seen was in Summer of 2010 (july 30 was the peak), but not as impressive as this one. I wasn’t looking forward to it, and looking back nothing really as large as I could have expected happened. Or so I thought at the time. With the benefit of a few years hindsight I realize this was the height of the WikiLeaks release, showing American war crimes in an official video and the government charged a young private first class with providing the video. WikLeaks had and continues to have, repercussions. The imprisonment, in one form or the other, of Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden, lead from the events of that summer. The Arab spring came about after that WikiLeaks release because, even though people in Tunisia had a good idea of what there government was up to, the WikiLeaks release confirmed it.

So one thought I have is that there will be no big event at the end of April, but only an event which upon looking back at we will realize that this was the start of something important.

But looking at the current world situation, it could be more than a symbolic event. This is the Centennial of the start of World War I, and it looks like people want to celebrate the event by more than just many books and TV specials. As I write this the events in the Ukraine have heated up. And it looks like a replay of the start of the Cold War. The Russians are being demonized much as the Soviets were 60 years ago, and the United States media seems to be as willing to repeat the government story of state enemies with at least as much stenographic ability as they had then. This period also recalls the time of the Cuban missile crisis. One wonders if intelligent beings are in charge of this country, or we are just on automatic pilot. So it is interesting to watch the tension build as this square builds to exact on April 21. The blindness and stupidity of officials reminds one of the blindness and stupidity of diplomats in the months and years before the outbreak of World War I.

Then take a look at the same grand cross as transits to the United States chart, also shown in the graphical ephemeris and the fourth harmonic. Yes, all four of those planets came together on the Sun of the United States, and also of course the Saturn of the United States. So we know that the United States will be strongly effected by whatever comes down in the last week of April.

Notice that the U.S. Sun is exactly opposed by Pluto, and this will continue for a couple of years, the middle of May is the first time it will be exact. Pluto has never been opposite the Sun of the U.S. since its birth, so there is not much of a track record. But the last time that Pluto was opposite the U.S. Sun was between the Seven Years’ War and the Revolutionary War – the tightest period was 1766 to 1770. This was the time was such things as the Stamp Act and the Townsend Acts were put out by Britain to get more money from the colonists to pay for the Seven Years’ War, which of course, said the British, the colonists benefited from. These various acts got the colonists angry and led to the Revolutionary War.

My guess on this opposition, which I talked about in the run-up to the 2012 election, and considering that the Sun represents the President and the government, is that whatever party has elected the President in 2012 would not be able to elect a President in 2016, since the party in office would be so disgraced.

And then we have Uranus square Sun. This happens more often than Pluto opposite Sun. The last time was 1970 and 1971. Anger was building towards President Nixon over bombings in Cambodia – the Kent State killings took place on May 4, 1970. Also there was an uprising at Attica prison in New York – many people were unhappy with Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s prison policies. But this time this square is combined with the Pluto opposition.

Note that the Ascendant of the U. S. chart is at 12 degrees of Sagittarius and so there is a quincunx with the Sun. This means that these four planets in the Cardinal Cross all make aspects to the Ascendant of the United States,though not as tight as with the Sun. Also note that the Moon is sesquiquadrate to the Sun of the United States, so what makes an aspect to the Sun also makes an aspect to the Moon. In this case we see that both Pluto and Uranus semisquare the Moon, and so the Moon is at the midpoint of Uranus and Pluto. This midpoint is not nearly exact – it will be exact this fall just in time for the Election!

Needless to say, this is a complex picture and it is impossible to even guess what it signifies. Stay tuned!

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